Canada-based BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has plenty of problems, and among them is a board that isn’t as technically savvy as its competitors. Today at its annual shareholder meeting, RIM chairwoman Barbara Stymiest confirmed that the company is indeed seeking out new board members with technical experience with the help of a search firm.

Proxy battles are tailored made for tech blog coverage: conflict, deadlines, inflammatory letters! But the latest move by Yahoo, which appointed three new board members yesterday, is not the smack in the face that blogger Kara Swisher (who we typically defer to in all things Yahoo), is making it out to be.

When it rains, it pours. The embattled Yahoo, which made itself the black sheep of Silicon Valley this week with a patent lawsuit against Facebook, is now facing a proxy battle over a new board from activist investor Dan Loeb at Third Point.